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The National Conference on the Status of the American Negro FINISHED ITS SESSIONS, IN NEW YORK CITY. JUDGE WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. PROF. WILLIAM E. B. DU BOIS OF ATLANTA, GA., DELIVERED THE MOST NOTABLE ADDRESSES OF THE OCCASION. PROF. JOHN SPENCER BASSETT DECLARES THAT THOMAS JEFFERSON WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT, TO APPOINT A NEGRO TO AN OFFICE. THAT ANDREW JACKSON WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO ENTERTAIN COLORED PEOPLE AT THE WHITE HOUSE. PERMANENT ORGANIZATION TO BE MAINTAINED THROUGHOUT THE UNION FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONTENDING FOR THE CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN. Vol. XIV The National Conference Status Am FINISHED ITS SESSIONS, IN JUDGE WENDELL PHILLIP SUPREME COURT OF BIA. PROF. WILLIAM E. B. DU LIVERED THE MOST THE OCCASION. PROF. JOHN SPENCER B THOMAS JEFFERSON DENT, TO APPOINT A THAT ANDREW JACKSON W TO ENTERTAIN COLO HOUSE. PERMANENT ORGANIZATION THROUGHOUT THE USE OF CONTENDING FOR RIGHTS OF THE AFRO The first session of the National Conference on the Status of the American Negro, was held in New York City last week. Its sessions were held in the Charities Building, 105 E. 22d street and in Cooper Union. Each meeting was addressed by some of the most prominent men and women of both races. Among them being Bishop Alexander Walters, John E. Milholland, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Charles Edward Russell, Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett, Chicago, Joseph C. Manning, editor The Southern American, Alexander City, Ala., Albert E. Pillsbury, ex Attorney-General of Massachusetts; Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Chicago, Prof. John Spencer Bassett of Smith College Northampton, Mass., Rev. J. Milton Waldron, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Cella Parker Wooley, Chicago; Dr. Livingston Farrand, New York City; Prof. W. E. B. Du Bois, Atlanta, Ga., and Judge Wendell Phillips Stafford of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and O. G. Vilard, editor the Post, New York City. The Addresses of Prof. Du Bois, Judge Stafford, and Prof. Bassett, were the most notable of all the addresses delivered and which are here re-produced in full. Judge Stafford declared: "I believe in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Not the brotherhood of white men, but the brotherhood of all men. I believe in the golden rule and the Declaration of Independence, and I stand by the Constitution of the United States, including the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. That is my creed and my platform. "The broad subject of our conference is the Negro and the nation, not the Negro and the North, not the Negro and the South, not the Negro and the white man, but the Negro and the nation. The questions it brings up are national. They cannot be settled by any one race and still less by any one section. They concern the whole country, and they must be answered by the country as a whole. If the Constitution is not binding in South Caro, lina, it is not binding in New York. If it cannot protect the black man it cannot harm the white man." "If fifteen States can set aside the Constitution at their pleasure there is no Constitution worth the name. If a State can nullify one clause it can HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY nullify the whole. If a State can, in a single Congressional district, deliberately exclude three-fourths of its eligible voters, and yet insist upon having them all counted for the purpose of holding a seat in the national assembly, it can perperate a fraud on every legally constituted Congressional district in the United States, and there is no security for representative government ir any corner of the land. "If any class or race can be premanently set apart from and pushed down below the rest in political and civil rights, so may any other class or race when it shall incur the displeasure of its more powerful associates, and we may say farewell at once to the principles which we have counted for protection. "We are confronted, not by a theory, but by a fact. That fact is the deliberate and avowed exclusion of a whole race of our fellow-citizens from their constitutional rights, accompanied by the announcement that that exclusion must and shall be permanent. It is not that the Negro is ignorant, nor that he is poor, nor that he is vicious, but that he is a Negro. Even when he is good and learned and rich, he must still be excluded because he is still a Negro. That is the proposition, and that it is which makes it the duty of all who dissent from such a doctrine to make their dissent known and make it uncompromising and clear. Problems Faced Squarely. "It will not do to shut our eyes to the real causes and results of the war—especially now when Northern indifference and Southern injustice strike hands to keep the black race in a new bondage as helpless and hopeless as the old. As a member of the white race and turning for the moment to white men. I say that our race will deserve any calamity the presence of the black race may bring. We brought it here by theft and force. We owed it liberty and we gave it a chain. We owe it light and we give it darkness. We owe it opportunity and we hedge it around with restraints. We owe it the court-house and we give it the lynching tree. Shame on the race that holds in its hands the wealth of the continent and carries in its brain the accumulated culture of the centuries, and yet, refusing to lift ignorance and vice to the level of enlightenment and virtue, CHICAGO, JUNE 12, 1909. AUGUST W. MILLER Member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County, Lieut. Col., of the Second Regiment, Illinois National Guards. One of the most influential German-American leaders of the Republican party, and strong candidate for Sheriff in 1910. makes that ignorance and vice an excuse for the denial of rights. Never until the white man has spent his last surplus dollar and exhausted the last faculty of his brain in the effort to lift up his weaker brother—never until then can he stand in the presence of infinite justice and complain of the ignorance or the criminality of the black. "America did not choose the great doctrine of equal rights—that immortal truth chose America. It has moulded her from the beginning; it will mould her until the end; but, if it cannot, it will cast her off with the wreckage of the past and take up some other nation that shall be found worthy." Treatment by Whites Professor Bassett, speaking of the hist of the Negro in America and his treatment by the Whites, said: "There is such a thing as the Anglo-Saxon attitude toward inferior. By observing the feelings on the subject in the places in which the English stock has ruled inferior, we may have the general features of this Anglo-Saxon attitude. "Mr. Bryce gives us some good illustrations of the feeling in Cape Colony. For example, a gentleman there may invite an educated Negro to dinner, but before doing so he will ask his white guests if they object to such company. Nor does it happen that he loses position in society because he has been host to a native. He is eligible thereafter as a guest himself at the home of those who would not accept his invitation under the conditions specified. The same is true as to intermarriage. It occurs rarely and there is no law against it. Sometimes a poor white man will work for a Negro who has employment for him. "Social relations with Negroes are not desired by the majority of the whites, but those who oppose such relations do not think the safety of society demands that the advocates of other views be held as enemies of the public good. On this subject people seem to think that the best safety of the public lies in allowing a man to believe as he chooses without making him pay any penalty. "When the nineteenth century began, and for three decades thereafter, the whites had the Anglo-Saxon attitude toward the Negro. They ought to develop him, they recognized his inferiority in the mass while they encouraged all efforts in the individual which seemed to work for his uplift. "The position of the Southern churches at this time has its parallel in that of some of the leading public men. Washington and many prominent Virginians are well known for their mild views of the Negro. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson, secretary of state, appointed a Negro mathecatician to office in his department, because he wanted to see if a Negro would succeed in that capacity. His letter to a gentleman in France telling of the matter shows that he did not disapprove of Negro officeholders. Received by Andrew Jackson. "And it was under Andrew Jackson, the second founder of the Democratic party, that Negroes, so far as I can learn, were first received at a social function in the White House. "Now these incidents do not prove everything, but they show that public opinion in 1791 and in 1829 was not like public opinion in the South at present. All that I claim is that in the first three decades of the nineteenth century the Southern whites had the typical English attitude toward the Negro. They recognized his inferiority, they sought to secure his development, and that painfully solid opinion which demands that white hands shall never touch black ones had not come into existence. Then came the war, with its failures, and reconstruction, with its fury. Whether we condemn or approve Negro suffrage which the North forced on the South while it could, we shall see that it did not improve the South's opinion of the Negro. From 1830 to 1909 is a long period. There is not a man living in the South to-day who remebers the time when the Negro question was not associated with passion. The people there not only have forgotten that they ever planned and strove to develop the race in the old English way, but they have difficulty to believe the historian when he proves it from their own history. They have not thought it possible to return to the former attitude, and yet what has been done can be done again. "If we could return to the attitude which existed in the days of saner conditions, the days of Jefferson and Washington, we should not have social intermingling of the races. . . . The differences between that condition and the present would be in the absence of friction. A white man would not hate a Negro because he was a Negro, and a black man would not hate a white man because he was white. We should then lose that apprehension, as old as slavery, that some day there will come a great struggle between the two hostile races, a struggle whose great probability lies in the habitual anticipation of it." Two Mischievous Propositions. Prof. Du Bois said in part: "The phrase 'take the Negro out of JAMES B. TUCKER A COLORED DETECTIVE DISCHARGED FROM THE POLICE FORCE FOR FALSELY ARRESTING A WHITE WOMAN. JOHN H. PRICE, ALSO COLORED, FINED THIRTY DAYS PAY, IN CONNECTION WITH THE AFFAIR. Saturday evening, May 29th, Detectives James B. Tucker and John H. Price, both Colored men who had been traveling as "Fly Cops" from the Stanton Avenue Station, arrested a man at 35th and State Streets, it was about 1:30 o'clock in the morning, and it seems that after the fly detectives, had managed to get their prisoner to the patrol box, they just happened to notice a white lady standing on the opposite corner of 35th and State Streets, and it was claimed by officers Tucker and Price, that she was talking to two Colored men, they then and there it appears arrested the white woman, but not the Colored men, they claim she was talking to, she was carted off to the Stanton Ave. Station, in the police wagon, with the other prisoners and on arriving there, the white woman turned out to be the wife of officer John F. McCarthy, who is connected with the same station. On the Monday morning following her arrest, Mrs. McCarthy was arraigned before Municipal Judge Gliten at the 35th St. police station, charged with the awful crime of simply exchanging a few words with two Colored men, while standing on the corner waiting for a street car to carry her to her home, for it seems she had been visiting her mother and had remained rather late, and she claimed that her short conversation with the Colored men, was in connection with two white officers and two Colored officers arresting or hopping onto one lone prisoner. Judge Girten, in order to be fair, continued the case against Mrs. McCarthy, for one week, so that officers Tucker and Price would have plenty of time to hunt up and produce evidence as to her wrong-doing. This they were unable to do, for they could not prove, or at least they did not prove that she was doing one thing unbecoming to a highly respectable woman, and there was nothing left for Judge Girten to do, but to discharge Mrs. McCarthy. Then naturally feeling sore over her false arrest, she induced her husband to file complaints against officers Tucker and Price, be synonymous with industrial training and property getting by black men. I want to show that in my opinion both these propositions are wrong and mischievous. "We believe in vocational training, but we also believe that the vocation of a man in a modern civilized land includes not only the technique of his actual work, but intelligent comprehension of his elementary duties as a father, citizen, and maker of public opinion, as a possible voter, a conserver of the public health, an intelligent follower of moral customs, and one who can at least appreciate if not partake, something of the higher spiritual life of the world. "It is possible—easily possible—to train a working class who shall have no right to participate in the government. Most of the manual workers in the history of the world have been so trained. But the one thing that is impossible and proven so again and again is to train two sets of workers side by side in economic competition and make one set voters and deprive the other set of all participation in government. It invites a conflict and oppression. A nation cannot exist half slave and half free. Either the slave will rise through blood or the freeman will sink. So far tremendous effort in the South has been put forth to keep down economic competition between the races, by confining the Negroes by law and custom DISCHARGED FROM THE FALSELY ARRESTING A N H. PRICE, ALSO COLORED, PAY, IN CONNECTION WITH before the Police Trial Board, and instead of going to Mrs. McCarthy, or having one of their superior officers, to call on her and beg her pardon a thousand times, for subjecting her to so much humiliation, officers Tucker and Price decided to pay out their money to a big white lawyer and fight the case before the Police Trial Board, although it appears that they had no case to start with. For last Friday after the Police Trial Board had listened to all the evidence or testimony of the witnesses on both sides of the case, it decided that under no circumstances were officers Tucker and Price justified in arresting Mrs. McCarthy, that she was not committing any great crime even if they did see her talking to Colored men, and the Police Trial Board, ordered that police officer J. B. Tucker should be immediately discharged from the Police Force of Chicago, and officer J. H. Price should be fined one months' pay, or $100, for conduct unbecoming a police officer. The findings of the Police Trial Board, works a double hardship on officer Tucker for just lately he bought a $6,000 home on Forest ave., between 35th and 37th streets, and some of his friends are heading a movement to have him restored to the police force, so that he will be able to hold on to it. The experience of officers Tucker and Price should be a warning to all other police officers, white and black, not to be too hasty in arresting white women for talking to Colored men and for being in each other company on the streets. For their are quite a few Colored lawyers in this city who have many white clients, including women, and it is no uncommon sight in the downtown district, to see white women walking along the streets with their Colored lawyers to and from the Court house and if the police officers, propose to persuade the policy that white women only converse with Colored men for evil motives, and continue to arrest them without the slightest provocation, they will continually find themselves in hot water. "Moreover, the schools that increase the competition are the industrial schools, and this is both natural and proper. This competition accentuates race prejudice; when a whole community, a whole nation, pours contempt on a fellow man, it seems a personal insult for that man to work beside me or at the same kind of work. "Not only is there this feeling, but there is also power to act. After the Atlanta riot the police and militia searched the houses of Colored people and took away guns and ammunition, while the sheriff almost gave away guns to some of the very men who had composed the mob. We think this monstrous, but this is but a parallel of the action of the whole nation; they have put the ballot in the hands of the white workingmen of the South and taken it away from the black fellow-workmen. "Other things being equal, the employer is forced to discharge the black man and hire the white man—public "FOUR YEARS AMONG THE MORMONS." Sunday afternoon, June 13, at four o'clock sharp, Julius F. Taylor, will address the Men's Forum, at the A. M. E. Church, at Evanston, Ill., on "Four Years Among the Mormons." . THE BROADAX [PUBLISHED WEBKLT. | eee ‘WH promulgate ané st all times up- pees Sayene oe POcir ear: as “eayone ean have ay, as oe sa The Broad Ax is » newspaper whove its own mind commuaications receive aeaee ‘Write only Soe side of the paper. Subscriptions must be peld im ad- ~~ Ome Tar... ..eceeeeeeeeeveee en SEO Gtx Months... ----- eee eeeeeeee eee Oe Advertising rates made known on ‘application. ‘Aé@éreas al! communications te THE BROAD Ax 6038 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Béttor and Pub- lsher. : Entered as Second-Ciass Matter, Avg. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Hlinole, under Act ef March 3, 1078. NATIONAL BAPTIST _.SUNDAY- SCHOOL CONGRESS. Religious Workers From All Over the United States Holding Ses- sions in Nashville, Tenn. Se RT See eee Fe Nashville, Tenn, June 9—Nash- ville, the capital city of Tennessee, is entertaining the most distingushed gathering of Sunday-School and young people's workers that ever assembled in the United States. The delegates came from every part of the country. This is the fourth annual gathering and from present indications will eclipse oth in point of attendance | and interest the previous sessions. The entire city is a unit in welcoming | and entertainng these religous work- ers, The sessions are being held with Mt. Olive Baptist Church on Cedar street. The opening was elaborate in every respect, and the welcome the delegates are receiving makes it pos- sible for the Congress Movement to take on new life and cover a more fertile field of labor. The Committee on the Assignment of Homes succeed- ed in sending out all of the assign- ment cards prior to the arrival of the delegates, and to the surprise of all, yet to their convenience, they lef: the railroad stations and went direct to their stopping-places. The first day's session of the Sun- day-school Congress was conspicuous for the presence of almost the en- tire Executive Board of the National Baptist Convention, which is here for the purpose of making its program. Presiding over this distinguished body of religious workers is Rev. Clark, D. D,, pastor of the chureh entertain- ing the Congress. Principal among the speakers today is Rev. R. H. Boyd, D. D.. LL, D. organizer of the Sunday-School Congress and-B. Y. P. U. Chautatqua. The officers of the Congress are as follows: Rev. P. James Bryant, D. D., of Atlanta, Ga. from the B. Y. P. U. Board; Rev. E. ‘W. D. Isaac, D. D., Nashville, Tenn., Secretary of the B. ¥. P. U. Board, is Blackboard Critic; ee son, D, D., Little Rock. Ark, Chair- man of the Home Mission Board; Rev. W. 8. Ellington, B. A, D. D, Nashville, Tenn, Congress Arbiter; Prof. R. B. Hudson, Selma, Ala, Re- cording Secretary; Rev. C. H. Clark, D. D,, Chairman of the National Bap- tist Publishing Board and and Presi- dent of the Congress, and Henry A. Boyd, Secretary of the Congress ‘Movement. One of the most charm- ing features of this religious gather- ing is the religious subjects that are being discussed touching every phase of Sunday-school work. These subjects will no doubt be uplifting and inspiring to thousands of mis- sionaries, educators and Sunday- school workers. Another feature of the meeting is the music furnished by a chorus of one hundred voices, under the skilled direction of Rev. N. H. Pius, D. D, of Springfield, Ohio, singing songs which are the “production of Negro brain throughout _fthe United States. The most at- tractive feature of this meeting will be the great Sunday-school Mission- “ary Mass'meeting to be held at the “Ryman Anditorium on next Sunday, “of which Rev. Charles. T. Walker, B,D. of Augusta, Ga, will be the ‘eentral figure. Already it is calew- 3c ee aap ot So listen to. th a ‘and elo- quent divine give out edvice and in ‘Mrs. Greenleaf of Atlanta, Ge, will arrive in the city in she near future, ‘and spend one month in visiting at the lovely home’ of her brother and isterinjaw, Mr. and Mrs. Charles ‘Smith, 5362 Dearborn Street. ‘THE STATUS OF THE AMERICAN ‘\ NEGRO. 3 (Continued on page 2.) PCR OM a. dee ees ee Fl of goverment, including police, ma- .gstrates, etc. render it, easier, since, bY preferring the white, many intricate questions of social contact are avoided and political influence is vastly in Must Work for Less Wages. “Under such creumstances there is nothing for the Negro to do but to bribe the employer by underbidding his white fellow; to work not only for less money wages, but for longer hours and under worse conditions. “Does he want to do this. Does he like long hours and under worse con- at “Does he want to do thisé Does he like longer hours. Ignorant as he is as a mass, has he not intelligence enough to perceive the value of labor unions ‘and the meaning of the labor move- ment? No, it is not because the black ‘man is a fool, but because he is a vie- tim that he drags labor down. “Judges and juries in the South are at the absolute mercy of the white voters, Few ordinary judges would dare to oppose the momentary whim of the white mob, and practically only now and then willa jury convict a white Ban for aggression on a Negro. Not only is this true in criminal but also in civil suits, so much so that it is a wide- spread custom among Negroes of property never th take a civil suit to ‘court but to let the white complainant settle it. In all public benefits like schools and parks and gathering and institutions, Negroes are régularly taxed for what they cannot enjoy. I am taxed for the Carnegie Public Li- brary of Atlanta where I canpot enter to draw my own books. The Negroes of Memphis are taxed for public parks where they cannot sit down. Barred From Engines and Autos. “Witness the strike of the white Iccomotive firemen in Georgia to-day; Negro firemen get from fifty cents 10 one dollar a day less than the white firemen, have to do menial work, and cannot become engineers. They can, |however,, by good service and behavior, ‘be promoted to the best runs by the rule of seniority. Even this the white firemen now object to, and say in a | manifesto; the “white people of this State refuse to accept Negro ca Te is worse than that. The other day the white automobile drivers of | Atlanta made a frantic appeal in the ‘papers for persons to stop hiring black ‘drivers. The black * drivers replied. [“We have had fewer accidents than \you and get less wages,” but the whites | simply said, “This ought to be a white man's job.” | “The voteless Negro is a provocation. | an invitation, to oppression, a plaything | for mobs, and a bonanza for dema- gogues. They serve always to distract attention from real issues and to ride fools and rascal into political power The political campaign in Georgia be fore the last was avowedly and openly a campaign, not against Negro crime and ignorance, but against Negro in- {telligence and property owning and in- dustrial competition, as shown by an "83 per cent, increase in their properyt in ten years. It swept the State, and if it had not culminated in riot and bloodshed and thus scared capital, it would still be triumphant. As it is. the end is not yet. “Fourteen years ago Mississippi be gan disfranchising Negroes. You were promised that the result would be to settle the Negro problem. Is it settled? No, and it never will be uml you giv= black men the power to be men, until jyou give them the power to defend that manhood. Wheh the Negro casts |a free and intelijgent vote in the South then, and not until then will the Negro [problem be settled.” THE EDITOR'S SOFT SNAP. The editor is a man with # soft snap. He reads the papers and mas- azines says the Girard Anchor, writes most of things he knows least about, and meets the people who desire to know him. He loves them because they are so forgetful of self and s0 solicitous of hig well being. They all want to hélp him. Onehalf of them want himto print news which he does not recognize as news, and the other half wants him to suppress what he recognizes as good news, be cause they do not regard it of any value or importance. The editor has more people trying to help him do ‘what he doesn’t care to do and induce him to do what they want him to do than any other individual on earth In the midst of it all Be keeps his poise, seldom reveajs the fact that he has any mind to speak of, and lets his visitors leave bim with a fecling of haying achieved something which they haven't. That is why they say he doesn’t do as he. agreéd when he agreed to do nothing. They do“ not lize how independent he can keep being agreeable, they still have jeara that being agreeable is not being a fool} —-*. THE REPUBLICANS ELECTED EIGHT AND THE OEMOCRATS CHOOSED SIX OF THE CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES, JUDGE THEODORE BRENTANO RE- ELECTED SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE. Judges Edward Osgood Brown, Franc- is Adams And Richard W. Clifford to the Regret of Their Many Friends Dropped on the Outside of the Breastworks. ‘The Judicial election Monday, held many surprises in store for the poli- ticians of both parties, many of whom thought that the candidates of either the Democratic or the Republican party would make a clean sweep, but thanks to the non-garty voters such was not the case and the Republi- cans elected eight Circuit Court ‘Judges and the Democrats six, name- ly, Judge John Gibbons, R.; Judge Richard 8. Tuthill, B.> Judge George A. Carpenter, R.; Judge Merrit W. ‘Pinckney, R; Judge Frederick A. Smith, R.; Hon. Kickham Scanlan, R; Hon. Jesse A. Baldwin, R.; form- er municipal Judge Adelor J. Petit, R; Judge George Kersten, D.; Judge Lockwood Honore, D.; Judge Charles M. Walker, D.; Judge Thomas G. Windes, D.; Judge Julian W. Mack, D.; and Judge Frank Baker, D. Judge Theodore Brentano, R.; de- feated William Brown, Jr., Democrat, and was reelected Judge of the Su- pesior Court. Judges Edward Osgood Brown, Francis Adams and Richard W. Clif- ford, to the great regret of their many friends dropped on the outside of the breastworks in their race for re-elec- tion to the Circuit Court bench, and we feel that the voters did not act wisely in shelving Judge Brown, for he is a high class gentlemen, an able lawyer and he has made an ideal judge and all in all, the voters should have put him over and permitted him to continue to serve them as one of their honorable judges. John P. McGoorty and Charles All- ing Jr, were among the other de- feated candidates, who have always stood by the people and at all times have worked for their best interest ‘and the voters regardless of thetr polt- tics, proved themselves to be un grateful, by side tracking them. It Is pleasing to note, that Kick- bam Scanlan, Adelor J. Petit and Jesse A. Baldwin, came in under the wires im good shape. They are all three highly cultured gentlemen and emin- ent lawyers, free from race prejudice, and will make tip top judges. The Broad Ax was with them from-the beginning to the end, and it is high- ly plehsed over their election, for all litigants will receive a square deal ‘nefinwe them. CHATEAU RINK NOTES. Mr. Wm. Brown, of Omaha, Neb., ‘was among the many guests at the Chateau Garden last Sunday eve. Every week an entire new bill of smart, clever vaudeville will be ren dered the patrons of the Chateau Gar- den, Come out and join the crowd and have a good time. eee Mr. Taylor, Editor of The Broad Ax, in making his rounds, paid a visit to the Chateau Garden. Call again editor” you are always welcome. The Garden spot of Chicago with free seats in the Balcony, sheltered @ancing free and high class vaude ville, is the Chateau Garden, visit it tonight. ocx Good wholesome food and splendid service by Bell & Daniels at the Cha- teau Garden. eee Mr. Chas. Perkins, the Chateau comedian made his first appearance last Sunday eve.. and held the audien ‘ence spell-bound for more than a half hour with his funny jokes and songs. Come and hear him tonight at the Chateau Gerden. eee After witnessing the ball game Sun- ay between the Leland Giants vs. Gunters. visit the Chatean and dine with Bell & Danibls. APPOMATTOX CLUB NOTES. At the Monday session of the Boatd of: Directors 25 new members were elected, among them some of Chicago's best citizens becam: mem- bers of the club. f Owing to the treacherous weather conditions ‘prevailing now, it was deemed unwise to run a boat excdt- sion and that idea was given up and in its stead arrangements were made by the Board for. the Annual Outing to take place the Istter part of July in Fox River Grove on Fox River on the line of the Morth Western Ry. ‘Those who have moved, will do well to get im touch with the Secretary of the Club as ~~ invited guests re- ceiving invitations througn the mail and whose name appears on the Club roster will be permitted to attend this outing. This rule will be strict- ly enforced. . eae The Board will meet again next Monday to consider the Annual Out- fmg and other emergency matters passed over from last meeting. The committee on arrangements for the pienic will meet Sunday evening, at 6 p. m. at the club parlors. President Moseley requests the full attendence. ‘The club members will attend Sun- Gay's ball game between the Leland Giants and the Gunthers, at 79th and Wentworth Ave. in a body, to wit: ness the Leland Giants win first place in the Chicago League. INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH NOTES. ‘Woman's Day was a grand success last Sunday, all the services were well attended. Mrs. Amanda Smith preached an excelent sermon at the morning service. Mrs. Bethune and women from the various clubs were on the program at afternoon service. Miss Hallie Q. Brown delivered a fine discourse at $ p. m. Mr. Ed. F. Morris, organist for the morning hour has prepared an ex- cellent ‘program which will be ren- dered Sunday morning, June 13. Subject for the morning sermon will be “The Power of the Endless Life.” Mrs. Jessie Smith and Miss Beecher will have charge of the mu- sie Sunday night. Subject of the ser- mon will be “Midnight Scenes from the Bible.” ‘A grand organ benefit will be given at the church Thursday night, July Ist. The Anniversary Day of the Organ- ization of the Church will be held on the first Sunday in July. Watch for programs.—“S.” THE ELEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMANDA SMITH IN- . DUSTRIAL HOME. Monday, June 28th, the Amanda Smith Industrial Home, Harvey, Il. will celebrate its 11th Anniversary and its founder, Mrs. Amanda Smith. cordially invites the friends and fin- apcial supporters of the home resid- ing in Chicago, and the surrounding towns near Harvey, to be present on that occasion, and help to enjoy an Gla-fashioned pot pie dinner. After the dinner there will be speaking and singing. Rev. C. E. Cor- nell, pastor of the First Nazarene church of Chicago, will preside. Mrs. M. Hill, Cook County president of the W. C. T. U. Chicago and Mrs. A. M. Taylor, South Bend, Indiana, will be among the speakers. The Winstons will sing, also the children of the home will take part by sing- ing some of the old time jubilee songs. “NO FRIEND LIKE THE DoG. Where will you find a man always grateful, always affectionate, never selfish, pushing the abnegation of se! to the utmost limits of possibility. forgetful of injuries and mindful only of benefits received? Seek him not; it would be a useless task. But take the first dog you meet, and from the moment he adopts yeu for his master. you will find in him all these quall- ties. He will love you without cal- culation. His greatest happiness will be to be near you; and should you be reduced to beg your bread, not only will he aid you, but he will not abandon you to follow a king to his palace. Your friends may quit you in misfortune but your dog/ will remain: he will die at your feet, or if you depart be- fore him on the great voyage he will accompany you to your last abode— From “History of the Dog.” DOGS IN BAGGAGE CARS. Railroads that do not allow dogs to accompany their owners in pasenger coaches are justly being urged, as summer approaches, to — rule or furnish better accomodatfons than the ordinary baggage car. Dogs that travel on trains are generally pets. As such, they deserve some special care for their ease and com- fort. As we journey, we find the dog welldehaved, couretous, and an agreeable fellow-traveler. We do not approve of his being classed and car- ried with that matter which “bag- gage smashers” handle. ‘When there is objection to dogs in passenger cars, then there should be provided. other quarters that will in- sure all the protection, care, and cow- fort for which owners are willing to pay;—-From Our Dumb Animais, Bos- tom Mass. re PROF. KELLY MILLER IN CHI- cago. ‘The Frederick Douglass Centre is pleased to announce that Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard University, Wash- ington, D. C., will deliver his thrilling lecture on “Race Loyalty" on the eve- ning of June 11, 1909, at 8 p. m, at the Institutional Church, 3825 Dear born St. Prof. Kelly Miller is one of the most interesting and scholarly men in the Negro race. He is an author of high recognition and a most capti- vating speaker, ‘We are anxious to give Prof Miller @ fine audience and trust you will Kindly co-operate in making the at- tendance worthy of this splendid re- resentative of our race. C. P. Wooley, Pres.. 8. Laing Williams, Sec’y. THE ST. MARK CONGREGATION HELD FORTH IN ITS NEW CHURCH LAST SUNDAY. The members and friends\ of St. March Church, 47th and State Street, which they recently sold, moved into their new home which they bought at 50th and Wabash ave. and held their first services there last Sun- day morning and evening and as each member was supposed to pay in $1.00 on entering the church, almost enough money was raised on the first Sun- day to wipe out the $1,000 debt aganist it. The new home of St. Mark is quite an improvement over the old one, but the white Christians residing near 50th and Wabash ave., are not too well pleased to have the Colored Christians rubbing up so close to them. ‘TAET DISPLACES NEGRO. ‘That the South is a white man’s country in the new Taft southern policy, was demonstrated recently when T. R. Dunham was appointed postmaster at Darien, Ga. Negrocs far outnumber whites in that town, and Negro postmasters have been the rule for years. The appointment is all the more significent as it is in the jurisdiction of the postmaster general, Mr. Hitchcock, formerly Republican national chairman, who Is opposed to white rule in the South when it in- terferes with the keeping up of the “machine.” The appointment was ordered by Mr. Taft personally. ‘At this rate, President Taft secms to be helping out his Negro, follow. ers in good shape. MARRIES COLORED WOMAN. Delaware, O., June 6.—Putting into practice his theory for the solution of the race problem. Mr. George Wells, brother of Deputy Sheriff Wil- liam Wells, has just returned home with an Afro-American wife. His parents are well-to-do and highly re spected. He believes the human race has deteriorated since the time of Christ through the failure of the races to intermarry. He is 35 years of age and far above the average in points of intelligence and good common sense. CHiPs | Mr. Samuel J. Evans has just re turned from an extensive western ‘trip. Mr. N. P. Miller has returned from ® southern trip, where he took in Brownsville, Atlanta and other points of interest. Little Katherine Crum, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. B. Crum, 3637 Dear es St. is rapidly improving ip health. Mrs. Lulu Williams, 2415 Wabash Ave, is contemplating spending her vacation in Cincinnati, O. with her brother. ‘The Dunbar Memorial exercises will be held at the Institutional Church Sun. afternoon, June 27th, under the airection of Mr. Julius N. Avendort The program will appear in a later issue of this paper. Mrs, Henry Young, 4922 Wentworth Ave., announces the marriage of her ‘sister, Mrs. Anna Beatrice George to ‘Dr. Howard M. Smith of Baltimore. ‘Ma. Col. and Mrs. “Pony” W. Moore tave vacated their elegant home al 3314 Calumet Ave., and they are now Tesiding on the sccond floor of the Palace Theater and Saloon, 359 3ist Street. Mrs. Neal Hawkins Buckner, is vis iting friends in Peoria, Ills. Before returning to Chicago, Mrs, Buckner will charm many audiences with her ‘sweet voice in the towns of Kentucky and Ohio. Fi “Mr, Albert A. Williams ‘of Sax » brother of Mr. Iver on Williams is the guest of Mr. Wm Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, presiden: of St. Luke's Bank, at Richmond, 1's recently presented Miss Nannie. ji roughs with a check for $500 to aia in pushing along her work in foundis. @ training school for Colored girl. Washington, D. C—Ex. Mrs. Olivia E. Montier, 725 Sou: Cleveland Ave. Philadelphia, Who is a member of one of the oli: Afro-American families in the Quaic:» City, announces the engagement ., her highly accomplished niece, jis: Rachel Catherine Montler, to \: Thomas Brown, also of that city * William Loeffler, 1919 Barry Ave formerly City Clerk of Chicago, ani prominent Democratic politician, ha. been at deaths door for the past two weeks. But to the delight of his many friends the doctors hold ow much stronger hope at the present «iting of his ultimate recovery. S. A. T. Watkins, Supreme torney for the K. Ps, throughout th world, left Wednesday evening, for New Orleans, La, Atlanta, Ga, an Nashville, Tenn., for the purpos: looking after some important lex! business in connection with his ordvr, he will be absent about ten days J. 8. Dorsey, who runs a neat dru< store at 116 1-2 W. 5Sist Street, has new and able assistant in the perso: of Miss Hawkins. who is quite pretty very amiable and popular with his customers. Miss Hawkins hails fro: Lincoln, Neb., and so far, she has fa Ten in love with Chicago. and it people. It is claimed by many of the bi ones who are in a position to kno what they are talking about, that “Rev. Archibald J. Carey, who ha: lately succeeded Sandy W. Trice, as general manager of the Old Church Organ, is in line to become one of the new bishops of the A. M. E Church; if this is true, then the rank sinners will be requested to move np another peg on the mourner's bench, J.C. Clark, who with his esteemabic wité, Mrs. Clark, own a fine two tia building at 6510 St. Lawrence Ave has the respect and the confidence of Mr. E. P. Ripley, president of th Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail- road, and as Mr. Clark has always proven himself to be honest and truthful, he accompanies president Ripley on his long journeys to all parts of the country. The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Eighth Regiment Ilinois Guards, will give an informal dancing party, at Masonic hall, 3954 State Street, Thursday eve- ning, June 15, The following ladies will have charge of the affair: Mrs John R. Marshall, President: Dr. Ide Gray Nelson, Vice-President: Mr= James H. Johnson, Treasurer: John L. Fry, Secretary; Mrs. Louis B. Anderson, Mrs. R. F. Ratcliffe, Mrs James R. White, Mrs. Clinton |. Hill Mrs. Franklin A. Denison, Mrs. W Mam T. Jefferson, and Mrs. R. Jackson. The Pickwick Club gave its frst initial daneing party Thursday «* ning, June 10th, at Oakland Mu- Hall, 40th Street and Cottage Gro'* Ave. It was a full dress affair ant admission by card only. In «ver! sense of the, word it was a very swell function. The active officers of tlie Piewick Club follow: Robert Turnl:s President; L. R. Waples, Vice Presi dent; F. L. Brown, Secretary and \ N. Francis Treasurer. This new clu? promises to outdistance all the other social clubs in the city. ‘The earliest trotting or pacing rate of which any record has been found was started from a New York row! house called the De Lancey Arms. ‘This wayside tavern stood in the Bow- ‘ery lane, near what is now the corner of .Fourth avenue and Eighteenth street. It seems to have been an all around sporting resort in colonial days, for in 1763 tt was the scene of = bal tees ne Sree ee raced up the road about half a mile \e the present corner ee On ae ‘Twenty-ninth DR. A. WILBERFORCE WILLIAM: ‘anvounces the Removal of his office to 3255 State Street, N. E. cor. 334 Street ScteA CHICAGO, ILL. Fours 10 to 12 m., 2 to 5, &:30 to 8:30 YOURSELF AND FRIENDS WILL BE CORDUALLT-RECEIVED Phome Aldine 2203 ee ee a i High Honor For Business Woman souscholds of Ruth Tender Magnificent Ban. quet to Mme. De Tuscano in Apprecia. tion For Falthfal Services Rendered the Order at New York. Among the Afro-American women of Greater New York who have worked their way up from the foot of the lad- éer in business, religious and secret seciety circles Mme. B. E. De Tuscano eccupies an enviable position. Back in sol, when the New York Women’s Business club was doing effective work i» helping young Afro-American wo- pen to perfect themselves in the dress- paking business, domestic science, mu- se and art needlework, Mrs. De Tus- qxo Was one of the foremost workers that organization. Her own special we of business, however, is that of splia making for secret societies and wet organizations. She also makes wners for churches and Sunday wbools. Her work bas been highly commended and even sought by manu- facturers of many years of experience, md today her name is sufficient guar- antee Zor the best quality of workman. ship. In secret societies Mrs. De Tus. cano is better known as a true re former and as one of the pioneer lead. ers in the Households of Ruth of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of New York. Many of the household cir cles give her the credit for their suc- cess in membership, finance and busi- ness management. She is an untiring worker in their ranks and never seems happier than when she is doing some thing for the promotion of the women ‘who are members of this time honored auxiliary to the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. And what is true of ber in this particular line of secret so- clety work holds good in many others which prize her membership highly. In order to show their appreciation for the long and faithful services which Mrs. De Tuscano bas rendered to them the various’ Households of Ruth of Greater New York recently tendered to ber a complimentary ban- Te SS j — oe e | Bede 5} ba (aarr7 ; i ae pre ‘ew Way Sp SZ —<=ss Sa ee jet at the New Amsterdam Opera House, New York. While the banquet was given under the auspices of the Households of Ruth, members from other organizations and the public gen- erally turned out en masse to testify their appreciation for the benefits Which they have received from her wise council, helpful association, work of faith and labor of love in the com- ‘mon cause of humanity and racial up- lift. The opera house was filled with friends and well wishers, who vied With each other In bestowing honor upon one to whom honor is. due. Music Was furnished by the New Amsterdam orchestra, and the banquet was serve by the well known William E. Gross. The banquet without doubt was the most elaborate given to any individual by the combined members of a secret order in New York for many years. The executive committee which en- gineered the banquet was made-up of Mrs, Sarah Hubbert, chairman; Mrs. Phoebe Green, vice chairman, Mrs. Rosa Goodrich, treasurer; Mrs. Sadie Garnett. assistant treasurer; Mrs. E, H. ‘Tolliver, general secretary. tnd Mrs. Gillian Prattis, assistant sec- Retary. ‘ heeoedien e Much interest is being manifested fn the forthcoming meeting of the Na- tonal Negro Business eague which will be held at Louisville, Ky. in August The busines’ men of Louisville are @thering statistics, photographs and sther material with a view of having MUblished a catalogue In which. will be shown the various. business estab- lishments, residences, churebes and halls owned by our people. National Teachers to Meet. Asheville. N. C., Bas been selected by ‘Se National Teachers’ association for sixth annual session, which will . frene there on Wednesday, June 23, three days. ‘There are fourteen Set baving state organizations mkt Fill charter. epectal’ ears for oar icezates coat vel in the regular way. More * thousand delegates are expect St ben attengante SES. ee Negro Poet of — Royal Lineage: ‘Alexander Poushkin, Writer of Many Poet- kcal Tales and Tragedies, Was of Russian Noble Birth—"“Eugene Om Me Mess, Alexander Sergejewitch Poushkin the Russian Negro poet, was born in the Schwarzhaus on the German street im Moscow on Ascension day, May Bussian calendar) 26, June 7, 1790. ‘He was descended on his father’s side from ove of the oldest of the noble families of Russia. The ancestors of Poushkin sprang from Alexander Neu- ski, and several of the bearers of this name were signers of the proclama- tion which made Mikhall Feodoro vitch Romanov czar. One of his an cestors figured prominently in Russia tm the time of Boris Godunov. A strain of Negro blood ran through Poushkin's veins from the maternal branch of the family. History relates that the Russian ambassador of Peter the Great to Constantinople brought back with him to St. Petersburg a ten- year-old black boy, Prince Ibraham Hannibal, as a present to the czar. ‘The czar became very much interested F es ‘ £ Ao a : ead : - i a re bs 4 Sam = ce. in a e Hy ¢ ‘> ! ig ee ae es im the little Negro boy and sent him to Paris to be educated. ‘This same Tbraham, known in history as Abra- ham. Petrowitch, died in 1781, being eighty-seven years of age, a Russian landed proprietor and general in chief. One of his sons, Ivan Abramowitch, who died in 1801, was the founder of the city of Cherson. Another Abramo- witch, who died in 1806, was the fa- ther of Nadeshda Ossipowna, who was the mother of Alexander Sergejewitch Poushkin, who has been styled “Rus- sia's black Byron.” Poushkin’s childhood was passed in his parents’ home at Sacharowo, about forty miles from Moscow, on the Smo- Jensk railroad. The grandmother, Ma- rie Alexjewna, was a highly gifted woman, though unhappily married to Ossip, the son of Abraham Hannibal. She and the nurse of Alexander ex- erted considerable influence over him, especially the latter, who during this period of bis life made him acquainted with the world of Russian folklore. The atmosphere of his home at that time was considerably French. Alex- ander’s father, Sergei Lwowitch (born 1771, died 1848, and the latter's broth- er, Wassilll Lwowitch, who was known at the beginning of the century as “Poet Poushkin” and who died in 1890, were bright, witty men, especial- ly Wassilli, who was famed for his sparkling epigrams and light lyric pieces. We cannot in the limited space given us do more than to mention briefly some of the best poems and prose works of young Poushkin. His Doetical tales are spirited and full of dramatic power. Among the tragedies written by bim may be mentioned “Boris Godunov” and “Eugene Onye gin,” his masterpiece. Among the best of bis short stories are “The Captain's Daughter,” “The Undertaker,” “The (Pistol Shot” and ~The Queen of Spades.” ‘A fine collection of bis poems have been translated into English by Mr. Ivan Panin one of whieb, “My Pedi- gree.” was written as a reply to a Bulgarian literary critic who disliked bim and made an ufipleasant allusion to bis ancestry. The poem is too lengthy for insertion here, but we may say that the poet silenced his critic very effectively. Other poems are “The Bard,” “The Storm.” “Winter Even- ing,” “The Poet” and “My Monument.” In 1890 the one hundredth anniver- sary of the birth of Poushkin was cel- ebrated all over Russia. It was made a national holiday, The government issued souvenir postal cards illustrat- ing scenes in the life of the poet, and the emperor ordered that an annual appropriation of 15,000 rubles be made by the government ‘to establish 2 Poushkin scholarship. In 1880.8 monu- ment was erected to his memory at ‘Tver Barrier, Moscow, and the school children and itterary and civic societies paid homage to his memory at this celebration by decking it with gar lands of flowers. A great parade pre- ceded the exercises at the monument, Tuich Toom eltvew, and stodens perial troops, citizens ‘and then followed orations by learned Russian scholars, the mayor of Mos- cow and others. : x " Poushkin was killed in a duel in 1837 with Barov George -Heckeron @Authes. ‘adopted son of the Dutch minister ‘resident at the court of St. Peter who had married, six- rt of ‘wife and stip wa : on we. at fst ome, Sane > ooo Zealous Women WorkForY.M.G.A ‘The entertainment which was given Tecently by a committee of indies for the benefit of the Carlton avenue branch of the Y. M. C. A., Brooklyn, N. ¥, RP. Hamlin secretary, was a most successful affair. One of the most interesting as ‘well as amusing features of the pro- gram was the dramatization of “Mary and Her Lamb,” in which Lillian C. Dodson, ten years of age, displayed unusual ability as a schoolmistress. The various striking poses of the wee tots drew forth rounds of applause from a most appreciative audience, ‘The presentation of the drama of “Sleeping Beauty,” with Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Foster as king and queen, Louis Bruce as prince and Miss Min- nie McKinney as sleeping beauty, was greatly enbanced by the beautiful cos- Bg ee a. i S ee. a ‘ - im S zee. eta .< ee Be oS aa ae ale ‘MES. HAKRY B. FOSTER. tumes of the fairies who pirouetted about and expressed keen enjoyment in the final realization of thelr prophe- cles, The fairy drill. which followed. ‘was exceedingly well executed and ‘showed carefulness of training. The ‘wand drill by a group of boys and the Indian club drill by the young ladies demonstrated the advantages of atb- letic training. The grace and ease of the performers were remarked by many present. The artists assisting in the musica! part of the program were Miss Elizgbeth 8. Delapierre and Miss Henrietta Hearsey, pianists; Misses Cockrane, vocalist; Miss Leila Thorne, render. and little Marion Bruce, solo- ist. whe captivated the audience by ber crauutic rendition of “Better Be Good” ‘the comruttee of arrangentents, to xeiuier with the hundred patronesses, ix to be congratulated upon the pres- ‘entation of oze of the most unique and interesting programs ever given before a’ Brooklyn andience. Many requests have been made for its repetition at an early date. ‘The program was in charge of Miss Mary A. Kearns of New York and Miss Fannie M. Perkins, assisted by i I ma ae Re ae og GES erAG ee aang Mrs. A. L. Brown. The committee of arrangements was as follows: ‘Mrs, Alexander L. Brown, secretary; Mrs. Matthew B. Russell, treasurer: ‘Mrs. George H. Harris, Mrs. Eugene ‘Henderson, Mrs. Thomas P. Moseley, Mrs. Charles F. Murrow, Mrs. Jobn 8. Parsons, Mrs. Harry L. Foster. Mrs. ‘Mary Hardy, Mrs. Robert L. Williams, ‘Mrs. Nelson. Mrs. Frances Brown, Mrs. P. B. Quaries, Mrs. A. W. Wiley, Mrs. ‘EB. Gray. Miss Frances Braxton, ‘Mrs. Edward L. Faulcon, Mrs. N. B. ‘Dodson, Mrs. Hugh 8. Newton. Mrs. ‘Frederick 8, Hunter. Mrs, Cora Proc: tor. Mra, Ficids M. . Mrs. Mary B dacksou, Mr M. . Zeno. Mrs. Taatah J ‘Talker. Mex, Laure G. Hall, WM. D. 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Postage 13c extra. cme ioc gees ae. tala i fr eames | BASE BALL 1909 , , ‘The Summer Schedule at 79th and Wentworth Avenue Leland Giants vs. LOGAN SQUARES—May 9th, June 12th, Aug. 7th and 15th. | WEST ENDS—June 6th, 19th, Aug. ist and 14th. ) GUNTHERS—June Sth, 13th, July Sist, Sept. 12th. | ANSON COLTS—June 20th, July 18th, Aug. 29th, Sept. 19th. | MILWAUKEE—June 26th, Aug. 8th, 28th and Sept. 26th. | After the Game Visit the Open Air Musical Emporium. 15324 State Street. Phone Went. 215. a co Birwarqabee ered 2 eee unemplesed fs varity Loafer the S++ ta Loafer the “> Te meas work.—Lontoa S > Use = The mu! recently <1" fF nurses for *" i dence Tosyi"! . For Nurses st social and frat! ‘tre. ‘American physi ives s+ a the hospital movemes' = we eae encouraged at the procte «ef () > new venture. and ther spesk words of praise and geatitude for the part which the women are taking to assist fm maintaining this much needed inst tution among our people. Gucee at Dibtie Gentian. It ought to be clear to most thinking Segroes by this time that the federal Jaws which are supposed to throw the mantle of protection around them are mere subterfuges and that their eff cacy as laws is subordinate to the strong public sentiment which has gatliered strength and power since the day they were placed in the constitu- thon. esses ci He Believed In the Cream. Some one was telling an Irishman that somebody had eaten ten saucers of ice cream, whereupon be shook his bead. “So you don't believe it, eh?” ‘With a sly nod the Irishman said, “Ot belave in the crame, but th’ divil a bit in th’ saucers!” -wrea aicn't o10W ats Drafas out De- cause you jilted him the other night,” sald girl friend No. 1. “He came over and proposed to me.” “Did lie?” replied girl friend No. 2 “Then he must have got rid of them ™ some other way” =| —a Phone Qakteetagg>137 Joba J. Duna wissaie COALS REE} Woop Filty-Pisst St. and Armour Ave. OMIEACS A Pleasant Winter Evening. ae YOU IN SEARCH OF ONE? ‘Then Visit the “Chateau,” 6324 State Street, Tonight. There is a fine Picture Show, Roller Skating, Dancing and superb music, refreshments and a jolly good Ume for good people. No proscrip- tion. Special prize program every Saturday and Sunday. Admission, 10 cents--one dime LELAND GIANTS’ BASE BALL | AND AMUSEMENT ASS’N. Creuse For Reoret. “I lMeked the stuffin’ out o’ Dick Smith this mornin’.” “You bad boy! Aren't you sorry for “r “Yessum—awful sorry. I jest found out that he’s goin’ ter have a birthday party tomorrow.”—Cleveland Leader. : In the Toile. “Were you ever sent up in a balloon, Sm? “No, sah. I's beep sent up several times, bat verter in = balloon, sab!— Youbkers o6-4--—* = - H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel, Central 4600 ’ . 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Cole, cigars, tobacco and news stand, $54 Sist street. J. R. Peters, cigars, tobacco, laun- dry office and news stand, 338 37st street. T. B. Hall, iaundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 281 29th street. ‘Mrs. A. E. Baker, notions, cigars and news stand, 419 26th street. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2632 State street, & D. Burt, cigars, notions ang ‘ews stand, 2636 State RA Jones news stand . 1. Washingt, Ceay Beech ‘Hotel, Hyde eee ee Lie The Acrobat Artist. It is in the visible expression of strength, grace and vitality that the artist of the circus holds himself at one with the painter and sculptor, but his art, like that of the actor, is necessarily alive and impermanent. Let the painter set on canvas his fixed presentment of lion, tiger or leopard, and the trainer, by his dangerous medium of whip and training stick, will make the living animals exhibit endless graces of subtle line and lovely color. When he puts his head in the lion's mouth, believe me, he considers it nothing better than a concession to the groundlings, a mere vulgar, necessary potbeller. When he compels the great tawny thing to repeat the grace of a natural movement, the training of wild animals being always along the line of what they do naturally, and leap in a long, gracious curve across the arena to an unstable landing on a rolling sphere, he feels that he is doing something worthy of himself and his animals. Or, again, let the sculptor depict a flying Mercury; Mercury must at least have a point of arrival or departure. But for one brief moment the young woman of the circus, swinging through space from one trapeze to another, is the grace of the flying Mercury. To attain this moment of self expression she has given as long and arduous an apprenticeship as the artist who works in clay, bronze or marble.-Ralph Bergengren in Atlantic. Wild Dogs In Africa The wild dogs in Africa are more feared by the natives than any other beasts, for, while they are not to be dignified by the term of game, they run in packs and seem to know that the native is afraid of them. Native burden bearers will often take their chances in passing around a buffalo herd and will hardly notice a lion, but when they hear the howl of the wild dogs they drop whatever they may be balancing on their heads and take to the trees. There they are frequently held captive until their cries summon assistance. Crossing the trail of large game, these dogs often interfere with the pursuit. At a distance the hunter is likely to mistake them for leopards or some of the smaller game. Intense disgust follows the wounding of a wild dog, for then, according to the ethics of the chase, the true sportsman must pursue and kill the beast. These dogs are not degenerates, but are natural mongrels. They have low bodies covered with hair of coach dog growth, bushy tails and powerful paws.—McClure's Magazine. Suburban Suburba. A flat dweller, having selected what he thought was a pretty good thing in one of the suburban towns as a place of residence, took his wife out to look at it. The rent was delightful, but the house was on the very rim of the town. The wife disapproved. "What's the matter with it?" he asked testily, for he had had a hard time finding it. "Well," she replied with feminine firmness, "I am willing for your sake to live in a suburb of the city, but I positively will not live in the suburb of a suburb. It's asking too much, George, and—and"— She didn't cry, but George prevented it only by superhuman efforts.—New York Press. Had Sure Chance A patient with a malignant disease of the throat consulted a London specialist. The surgeon recommended the removal of the larynx. The patient expressed a fear that the operation was dangerous. "Oh, no!" said the surgeon. "You are sure to recover." "But," said the patient, "I understood that the operation was serious indeed." "Well," said the surgeon, "my reason for saying that you are sure to recover is this: the mortality is nineteen out of twenty, and I've had nineteen deaths already." "What is it. Theobald?" "What is it, Theobald?" "May I ask you a question?" "Certainly you may, my child. It is only by asking questions that we can improve our minds and prepare ourselves for our work in the world. I am glad to note a spirit of inquiry in you, and I hope you may never arrive at the place where you think you know it all and cease to solicit information from others. What is your question, my son?" "I forget, papa."—Newark Newa. An Odd Slip. Dr. Johnson once met the village postman trudging along the dutty road on a hot summer afternoon. The postman observed that he had still a mile to walk just to deliver one newspaper. "My goodness," exclaimed the sympathetic doctor, "I'd never go all that distance for such a trifle! Why don't you send it by post?" The Loafer. "Does the new office boy loaf or make mischief?" "Loafa." "Discharge him. We can direct a mischievous lad's efforts into some useful channel, but we can't do anything with a loafer."—Buffalo Express. "Women prisoners is quippy," said the jailer. "One had a quip toward writin', and she was always swipin' ink out of the schoolroom. "She swiped ink in her thimble. She'd fill the thimble up to the brim and then stand it carefully in her hair. Mighty good balancin' was required on the way back to her cell. Still, what if she did spill a drop or two on her scalp? A female convictn't on view like a society woman, is she? "Of course as soon as we got on to the thimble game we put a stop to it. That didn't put a stop to the ink stealin', though. I says to her one day on the way back from the schoolroom: "Well, Russell, no more poetry writin' with ink what don't belong to ye, hey? "She just smiled and mumbled somethin'. "Speak up,' says I. 'Do ye miss yer ink—yes or no?' "Bub-ub-ub,' says she, tryin' to brush past me. But I grabbed her arm. I noticed a thin black thread of sump'n tricklin' from her lips. Yes, sr! Would ye believe it? She was stealin' the people's ink now in her mouth!"—New Orleans Times-Democrat Poor Billiards. "One summer in the country," said a well known amateur billiardist, "another man and I were overtaken by a storm and had to go into a tavern for shelter. The rain fell steadily. We had three or four long hours before us. Time began to hang heavily on our hands. "Landlord," said I, 'do you happen to have a billiard table?' "Sure," said the landlord. 'Sure. Just step this way, gents.' "He proudly threw open the door of a dark, stuffy room. We saw an antiquated table with a patched cloth, and in the corner was a rack of crooked cues. "Any balls?" said I. "Sure," said the landlord, and he unlocked a closet and laid on the table three white balls, all alike—there was no spot, you know. "But, see here," I remonstrated, 'how do you tell these balls apart?' "Oh, that's all right," said he. "You soon get to know 'em by their shape." —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. To Be Sharp. The Aryan root "ak" meant "to be sharp," and the idea of sharpness has followed it at least through 10,000 years into all of the family of languages of that tongue. It is quite likely that the property of sharpness was conceived of by these ancestors from handling shells, the first knives that man knew. That cutting edge was referred to by "ak" long before the most primitive people had learned to put an edge on flint. When these Aryans wanted to express the idea of sharpness of mind they used the same word. This root went into the Greek, where it became "akros," meaning pointed. In Sanskrit it is "acre," meaning the same thing. In the Latin we find "acrimonia," signifying sharpness, from which our "acrid" comes. The Latin also has "acer," meaning sharp, and "acua," a needle. In the Anglo-Saxon it became "eag," an edge. So the idea of sharpness runs all the way through, and we have it in our "acid," "acute," "edge" and "ax" as well as in "acrid" and "acumen."—Argonaut. The Alexandrian Library. Omar, a fanatical caliph who overran Egypt about the middle of the seventh century, proclaimed that, since the Koran contained everything that human beings ought to read, no other books had any right to exist, so he condemned to destruction the immense library at Alexandria founded by the Ptolemies and constantly enlarged by their successors until the advent of the Saracens. How enormous it was can be imagined from the fact that for six months the manuscripts supplied the fuel of 4,000 public baths. It was the most terrible blow ever inflicted upon literature. Genius Rewarded. A schoolmaster not famous for his personal beauty swooped down on the inattentive boy and found him drawing caricatures. He picked up one and asked the boy in a voice of thunder, "Is this meant for me?" "Please, sir," said the victim, in a state of terror—"please, sir, I did not mean to make it so like." The master destroyed the picture and let the matter drop.—London Globe. Thought It Was a Proposal. Scene—Cab stand near London. Lady distributing tracts, hands one to cabby, who glances at it, hands it back and says politely, "Thank you, lady, but I'm a married man." Lady nervously looks at the title and, reading "Abide with me," hurriedly departs, to the great amusement of cabby.—London Spare Moments. GENERAL BANKING ent allowed on Saving Deposit Vaults, $3.00 REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT Rea Estate on commission, manage ment of taxes and looking after assessa tate. Invites the patronage of Chicago bu Telephone Blue 4601 H. JOHNSON AND EXPRESS are Moving a Specialty Storage W E STREET Douglas 727 Res. Phone J. JACKSON GENERAL DIRECT -61 STATE ST., CHIC ch: 1310 Bingham St., Pittsburg pages for Hire to Parties and F. LYNG ing, Gas Fitt Sewerage STATE STREET, CHI 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year As agent buy and sell Rea Estate on commission, manages estates for non-residents, including payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Money to loan on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. Telephone Blue 4601 B. H. JOHNSON VAN AND EXPRESS Furniture Moving a Specialty Storage Warehouse 4915 STATE STREET CHICAGO Office Phone, Douglas 727 Res. Phone, Douglas 5998 M. F. LYNCH Plumbing, Gas Fitting and Sewerage 4740 STATE STREET, CHICAGO TELEPHONE DREXEL 3633 lett L. BARTLETT & real Estate g, Loans and In street NOTARY PUBLIC J. S. BARTLETT & SON Real Estate Renting, Loans and Insurance Telephone Oakland 1061 element. headache," sighs thing. had magnetic heal- ing young man. head, thus, on my is my arm about manner. Now be see if this does not tainted for five or when the obliging she are most." "I made enough street last week lot." "Did you buy it? Well, no; but I York Herald. Why $? "Why is it, it, that let your husband in everything?" "Because," she have some one to go wrong." encouragement. "I have a splitting headache," sighs the beautiful young thing. "Have you ever tried magnetic healing?" asks the obliging young man. "No. What is it?" "You rest your head, thus, on my shoulder, and I pass my arm about your waist in this manner. Now be perfectly calm and see if this does not relieve you." The position is maintained for five or ten minutes, and then the obliging young man asks: "Does your head ache any more?" "To see." "Well, I'm sorry I don't seem able to relieve you." He is about to remove his arm when she looks up at him chidingly and says: "It seems to me that if you have any confidence in your method you would be willing to keep on trying."—Chicago "I made enough money in Wah street last week to buy a house and lot." "Did you buy it?" "Well, no; but I wish I had."—New York Herald. Why She Did It. "Why is it," they asked, "that you let your husband have his own way in everything?" "Because," she replied, "I like to have some one to blame when things go wrong." Proof. "I guess their honeymoon is about over." "What makes you think so?" "He's quit coming home for his noon lunch."—Detroit Free Press. Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark—Newton THE MIDDLE EAST MUSEUM 3 per cent a Safety Deposit REAL As agent buy and sell Real Presents, including payment of u on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invite B. H. VAN AND Furniture Moving 4915 STATE ST Office Phone, Dougl E. J FUNERAL 2959-61 Branch: 13 [Fine Carriages M. 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